The story of this show began in 2022, when Kevin Dumouchelle, curator at the museum and co-curator of the exhibition, planned to do a book for the Smithsonian about LGBTQ+ African artists. He soon ...

In the 2018 movie “Black Panther,” as a prelude to a murderous heist, the villain, Erik Killmonger, looks at African artifacts in the fictional Museum of Great Britain. Masks, statuary and other ...

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...

For Abidjan-based artist Saint-Étienne Yéanzi, the continent’s social and political reality has sparked a creative evolution for contemporary African artists, he says, giving them confidence to work ...

The City’s first and only gallery dedicated to contemporary Pan-African Art will open next month.

For Pablo Picasso and other 20th-century European masters, African art was a revelation—innovative, sophisticated and to their eyes strikingly modern. They insisted that the continent’s creative ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — San Diego Mesa College's art gallery celebrates Black history with a new exhibit showcasing traditional African artwork. The exhibit, "Africa in Context," is much more than a ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A visitor looks at wooden royal statues of the Dahomey Kingdom, dated 19th ...

The Museum for African Art will begin exhibitions again when it reopens at its 110th St. location in 2009. It's not always easy to track down the Museum of African Art. Although it was only founded in ...

DENVER — The Denver Center for African Art has been showing artworks from art collectors around the country to educate others and preserve history. The nonprofit cultural education center shows a ...

In a study published in Telestes, Dr. Joshua Kumbani and Dr. Margarita Díaz-Andreu categorized the various dance scenes ...